Jeremiah 49:5-15

5 "Behold, I am going to bring ¹terror upon you," Declares the Lord GOD of hosts, "From all directions around you; And each of you will be ²driven out headlong, With no one to gather the ³fugitives together.

6 "But afterward * I will ⁴restore The fortunes of the sons of Ammon," Declares the LORD.

Prophecy against Edom

7 Concerning ⁵Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Is there no longer any ⁶wisdom in ⁷Teman? Has good counsel been lost to the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

8 "Flee away, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of ⁸Dedan, For I will bring the ⁹disaster of Esau upon him At the time I punish him.

9 "¹⁰If grape gatherers came to you, Would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, They would destroy only until they had enough.

10 "But I have ¹¹stripped Esau bare, I have uncovered his hiding places So that he will not be able to conceal himself; His offspring has been destroyed along with his relatives And his neighbors, and ¹²he is no more.

11 "Leave your ¹³orphans behind, I will keep them alive; And let your ¹⁴widows trust in Me."

12 For thus says the LORD, "Behold, those who were not sentenced to drink the ¹⁵cup will certainly drink it, and are you the one who will be ¹⁶completely acquitted? You will not be acquitted, but you will certainly drink it.

13 "For I have ¹⁷sworn by Myself," declares the LORD, "that ¹⁸Bozrah will become an ¹⁹object of horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins."

14 I have ²⁰heard a message from the LORD, And an ²¹envoy is sent among the nations, saying, "²²Gather yourselves together and come against her, And rise up for battle!"

15 "For behold, I have made you small among the nations, Despised among men.

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Jeremiah 49:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 49

This chapter contains prophecies concerning the judgments of God on several nations and kingdoms, chiefly bordering on the land of Israel; on the Ammonites, Jer 49:1-6; on the Edomites, Jer 49:7-22; on the kingdom of Damascus, or the Syrians, Jer 49:23-27; on the Kedarenes or Arabians, Jer 49:28-33; and on the Elamites or Persians, Jer 49:34-39.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 22

1. Jeremiah 48:43; Jeremiah 49:29
2. Jeremiah 16:16; Jeremiah 46:5
3. Lamentations 4:15
4. Jeremiah 48:47; Jeremiah 49:39
5. Genesis 25:30; Genesis 32:3; Isaiah 34:5, 6; Jeremiah 25:21; Ezekiel 25:12; Amos 1:11; Obad 1-21
6. Job 2:11; Jeremiah 8:9
7. Gen 36:11, 15, 34; Jeremiah 49:20
8. Isaiah 21:13; Jeremiah 25:23
9. Jeremiah 46:21; Malachi 1:3, 4
10. Obadiah 5
11. Jeremiah 13:26
12. Isaiah 17:14
13. Psalms 68:5; Hosea 14:3
14. Psalms 68:5; Zechariah 7:10
15. Jeremiah 25:15
16. Jeremiah 25:28, 29; 1 Peter 4:17
17. Genesis 22:16; Isaiah 45:23; Jeremiah 44:26; Amos 6:8
18. Genesis 36:33; 1 Chronicles 1:44; Isaiah 34:6; Isaiah 63:1; Amos 1:12
19. Isaiah 34:9-15; Jeremiah 18:16
20. Obad 1-4
21. Isaiah 18:2; Isaiah 30:4
22. Jeremiah 50:14

Footnotes 10

[a]. Heb "YHWH," usually rendered LORD
[b]. Lit "before him"
[c]. Or "captivity"
[d]. Or "brought"
[e]. Or "punished"
[f]. Lit "their sufficiency"
[g]. Lit "seed"
[h]. Lit "brothers"
[i]. Or "fatherless"
[j]. Lit "whose judgment was not to"